> But I'm not so sure the stats tell a sad story. The decline in posting
> traffic may be an indicator that the product has matured a lot and most
> of the bugs have been squeezed out. It appears to me that the number of
> and interval between bug reports on Zeta releases has declined markedly.
> Also, most of the pressing feature requests have either been dealt with,
> or we have acccepted Kim's postponement of them to future developments.

You may be right there. I used to frequent this site daily because I was dissatisfied with the software and wanted to discuss improvements and workarounds. Now it's mostly ok for me, the urgent stuff, anyway.

> Finally, I may be delusional, but I think the number of registered
> users has increased over time.

But are all the existing registered users still using it? No one de-registers.